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Vincent Buckley

Born

in Romsey, Australia

July 08, 1927

Died

November 03, 1988

Genre

Literature, Criticism, Biography

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Vincent Buckley was born in rural Romsey, just north of Melbourne. After two years in the RAAF and its hospitals, he studied Arts from 1946 at the University of Melbourne. He taught in the English Department there until retiring from a personal Chair in 1987. One of Australia’s most distinguished critics, and a powerful social commentator, he wrote three seminal books of criticism, much journalism, and memoirs on Melbourne and Ireland – his two homelands. He stayed in Dublin for several months on a first visit in 1956, and again in 1977 and early 1981. He spent a year, 1981-82, in the Kildare countryside, and was in Ardmore for three months in 1986. Acknowledged as a major poet after Arcady, 1966, and Golden Builders, 1976, his prizes inclu ...more

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	Last Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cutting Green Hay really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry and the sacred it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memory Ireland: Insights Into the Contemporary Irish Condition liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry and Morality: Studies on the Criticism of Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1975 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vincent Buckley Selected Poems it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Late Winter Child 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Essays in poetry, mainly Australian (Essay index reprint series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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